July 30, 1990
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So much in our world argues that retaliation is the inevitable response to wrong. But Christ Jesus' life provides a radically different model. He disarmed evil with the power of divine good.
This writer found that, even in the face of injustice, prayer brings a stillness, a spiritually based calm, which can lead to effective action.
Is fear a fundamental element in our makeup? Or do we have a nature that resists fear, a nature that reflects the might of divine Love?
To make the effort to see in others their true Godlike nature is to make a contribution to their spiritual growth—and ours.
If a better perspective can help with problem-solving, think what a Christlike outlook can do.
"More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of," wrote Lord Tennyson more than a century ago.
We need to be clearer about who and what our adversary is. It's never really people. And it certainly can't be truth. It's always error, since God, good, is unopposed.
There is Christian healing that is normal to life. It arises out of spirituality, and it can't be denied, or denied to us.
"Thou
hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me".
One day one of my fingers suddenly became bent and I could not move it.
Christian Science heals! I was raised in a home where our family placed sole reliance on God, and the healings that followed were not miraculous; they were natural.
I am a third-generation Christian Scientist and have, my whole life, depended on this wonderful Science.
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Convincing testimonies of healing in Christian Science are always welcome for publication.
